Latest Post Office Small Saving Schemes Interest rates Oct-Dec 2018

What is the applicable latest Post Office Small Saving Schemes Interest rates Oct-Dec 2018? The government announced the interest rate for PPF, Sukanya Samriddhi, NSC, KVP Interest Rates July-Sept 2018. Let us see the changes applicable with effective from 1st October 2018.

Earlier the interest rates used to be announced on yearly once. However, now from 2016-17, the rate of interest will be fixed on a quarterly basis. I already wrote a detailed post on this. I am providing the links to those earlier posts below.

Below is the timetable for change in interest rates for all Post Office Savings Schemes.

As per the schedule, Government announced the interest rate applicable to all Post Office Savings Schemes from 1st July 2018 to 30th Sept 2018.

Latest Post Office Small Saving Schemes Interest rates Oct-Dec 2018

Just to quickly recap, last quarter, Government maintained the same interest rate for all Post Office Small Savings Schemes.

However, as it was expected, for this quarter, Government increased the interest rate of few Post Office Small Savings Schemes. Below is the latest Post Office Small Savings Schemes interest rates Oct-Dec 2018.

You notice that there is a sudden rise in interest rates of all small savings schemes (except savings deposit scheme). I marked the same in different colour to highlight the increase.